Snap-hook



(No Model.) J. H. PARMER SNAP HOOK. No. 307,280. Patented Oct. 28, 1884.

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UNITED STATES ATENT Orricno JAMES H. FARMER, OF RUSSELL, KENTUCKY.

SNAP-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 307,280, dated October28, 1884.

Application filed May 22, 1884.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J AMES H. FARMER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Russell, in the county of Greenup and State ofKentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSnap-Hooks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of thisspecification, and in Which Figurel is a longitudinal vertical sectionalview of my improved double snap-hook; and Fig. 2 is a cross-section, online 11 y, of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both thefigures.

My invention has relation to that class of snap-hooks having a hook ateach end; and it consists in the detailed construction and combinationof parts of such a double hook, as hereinafter more fully described andclaimed.

\ In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the shank or bodyof the hook, having two hooks, D D-one at each end-the ends of whichhooks are bent toward each other and have recesses K upon their innersides. A flat spring, L, having its ends bent outward, is secured at itsmiddle in a recess, N, in the middle of the body by means of a rivet, M,and the outwardlybent ends of the spring fit in the recesses in the endsof the hooks, clos ing the mouths of the hooks and preventing the endsof the spring from being displaced from their positions, while the sidesof the recess in the body serve to retain the spring in its positionparallel to the shank of the hook, preventing it from being turned uponthe same.

It will be seen that the hook may be inserted into links of a chain orinto rings by depress- (No model.)

ing the ends of the spring, and that by depress ing the ends of thespring the said links may be removed from the hooks, thus rendering thehook particularly useful for temporarily repairing chains or connectingsections of chain and for similar objects. It will also be seen that thespring, which is a flat piece of steel or other suitable metal, is bentor shaped, as shown in the drawings, by riveting its middle down intothe recess N in the middle of the body of the book, so that its freeends will be forced up into the recessed ends of the hooks withconsiderable pressure, which would not be the case if the spring werefastened in its fiat or straight form upon the middle of the hookinstead of being forced into it.

I am aware that it is not new to have snaphooks provided with a hook ateach end; and I am also aware that it is not new to have the end ofaspring secured to the shank of a snaphook and bearing with its free endagainst the free end of the hook, and I do not wish to claim suchconstruction, broadly; but

I claim-- The combination of the shank having a reccss at its middle,and having an inwardlybent hook at each end provided with a recess inthe inner side of its end, with the fiat bent spring secured by a rivetat its middle in the recess in the middle of the body, and having itsends bearing in the recesses in the ends of the hooks, substantially asand for the pur pose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 7 my own invention Iliavehereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES H. FARMER. \Vitnesses:

M. HALLORA'N, J. H. NIXON.

